Totango

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Customer Success Playbook Strategies: Mapping a Path to Winning Outcomes. A customer success playbook maps out a game plan you can use to automate successful outcomes for your clients. Having a playbook in place can help you deliver better results for your SaaS customers and yield higher satisfaction, retention, and revenue for your business. Here we’ll show you how to use customer success playbooks to support your CS strategy: We’ll define the customer success playbook and clarify

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Taking an omnichannel approach to customer service is essential in the modern technological landscape. Read this post to learn best practices for omnichannel customer engagement.

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Adrian Swinscoe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This is a guest post by Amanda Winstead, a freelance writer from the Portland area. One of the most dangerous things in the workforce, particularly in […]. The post Diminishing unconscious bias in customer service first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the past five years, we’ve seen neural network technology really take off into its own. GPT-3 can create human-like text on demand, and DALL-E, a machine learning model that generates images from text prompts, has exploded in popularity on social media, answering the world’s most pressing questions such as, “what would Darth Vader look like ice fishing?

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Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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CX Accelerator

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Sally Mildren, CEO Clarity PX & Boss Lady Consulting. Matt Beran, Sr. Product Marketing Specialist InvGate. Many leaders do in fact think they are supporting Customer Experience in their organization. After all they have approved a resource and some budget to it. If we are being honest, that’s as committed as it gets for many executive and operational leaders.

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ECXO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The European Customer Experience Organization – Upcoming Events, Research, and Activities for You. Update Public Newsletter for future ECXO.org Members. How are you? We hope you and your family are having a great summer. The European Customer Experience Organization is an open-access CX Professional Network aiming to educate European and the rest of the world’s Corporate on CX, EX related topics, including customer understanding, perception, and real innovation plus some evolving top

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for understanding and improving customer experiences. Read on to learn our suggested methods for incorporating this technology into your contact center.

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Adrian Swinscoe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This is a guest post by James Lockhart, Head of Product Marketing at TelcoSwitch. Voice and speech analytics refers to the process of analysing recorded conversations […]. The post Understanding how all businesses can benefit from voice analytics first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

It’s no secret that businesses today are feeling the financial squeeze. As costs and competition continue to rise, companies need to hone in on activating, engaging, and retaining their customers while minimizing their overheads. Luckily, we’ve launched a new guide to help you achieve just that. These times of change bring opportunities as well as challenges.

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Inside Customer Service

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

"This is discrimination!" The passenger in the row behind me was throwing his second tantrum of the flight. The first one happened after he walked from the main cabin into first class to use the restroom. Three flight attendants were working in the front galley and one of them politely asked him to use the restroom in the main cabin. He raised his voice and cursed about it, but the flight attendants remained polite, calm, and professional.

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Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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Shaun Belding

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

How you manage customer expectations is a critical component to delivering outstanding customer experiences. When you can meet or exceed someone's expectations you trigger trust and the belief that you genuinely care about your customers. Unmet expectations, on the other hand, are the most common trigger for “difficult customers” or difficult situations that lead to the need for service recovery.

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The Belding Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It's a beautiful day, you like your job, you've got a good boss, and the universe is unfolding as it should. The next thing you know, that negative coworker of yours walks in with that black cloud over their head, and sucks the life right out of you. They are the poster children for bad attitude. Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Conversation intelligence is a powerful tool for driving performance improvement across your business. Read on to learn the benefits and best practices for adopting this innovative technology.

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Adrian Swinscoe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This is a guest post from Ed Whitehead, the Managing Director EMEA for Signifyd. Today, businesses are realising that a top-notch customer experience is the […]. The post How to protect your business from loyalty fraud first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Large changes are hard to understand, and harder to debug. At Intercom, we deliver complex changes in a series of small, controlled, easy-to-understand steps. Small changes are easier to build and faster to review, enabling us to deliver value to customers more quickly. This is the seventh post in a series exploring our product principles. Here, Aidan discusses our engineering principle “Build in small steps”.

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Inside Customer Service

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Customer service is hard. It requires a lot of focus, calm nerves, and the ability to work through multiple distractions. All of that gets a lot harder when you have ADHD.

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Heart of the Customer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As I mentioned in my last posts, being a Change Maker requires a different way of thinking, so it’s helpful to have guides to show you the way. In my new book, Do B2B Better, which comes out next week on CX Day, I provide deep dives into numerous real-world customer experience programs and lots of […]. The post Do B2B Better Excerpt #3: Dow appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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The Belding Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Idea-trashing coworkers from Hell. They rarely have positive things to contribute, preferring instead to tell you why things are Bad Ideas or why they won't work. They aren't fun to work with. Shaun Belding | www.shaunbelding.com.

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Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

CallMiner CX Landscape Report found 62% of companies believe they don’t collect all of the CX data they need, with only 12% collecting an equal amount of solicited and unsolicited customer feedback.

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Adrian Swinscoe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Today’s interview is with Jack Springman, a former Associate Director of Optima Partners, customer experience provocateur and new author. After a year-long battle with cancer, Jack […]. The post CX professionals extol the importance of empathy towards external customers but often overlook its importance with internal ones – Interview with Jack Springman first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Think about how many phone calls your contact center receives in one day. Thousands, right? Now, think about how many ripe opportunities you have to ask for customer feedback. Thousands again. How? Through after-call surveys. You might confuse them with net promoter score or cSAT, but post-call surveys are a much more specific way to gather real-time feedback.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Our product principles are deeply embedded in Intercom’s culture. Over the years, they’ve helped us keep teams aligned, create products our customers love, and guide our decisions through every roadmap, every strategy meeting, and every onboarding. Recently, we started a blog series exploring the thought process behind each of our product principles, written by the people that know them the best – our R&D team.

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Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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Heart of the Customer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As I mentioned in previous posts, being a Change Maker requires a different way of thinking, so it’s helpful to have guides to show you the way. In my new book, Do B2B Better, which comes out next month on CX Day, I provide deep dives into numerous real-world customer experience programs and lots of practical […]. The post Do B2B Better Excerpt #2: Nancy Flowers appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Steven Van Belleghem

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Some people like to ascribe its phenomenal success to an extra-long build-up, leading to an intense hype creation. That’s because ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ was scheduled for release in 2019, pushed back to 2020 ( several action scenes needed to be reshot), after which the pandemic hit and it was delayed a further four times before being released May 2022.

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A survey conducted by CallMiner and TechCentral reveals challenges and priorities within South African call centres, as well as how they manage performance and improve efficiencies using technology.

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Adrian Swinscoe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Today’s interview is with You Mon Tsang, the founder and CEO of ChurnZero, which helps subscription businesses fight churn with a real-time customer success platform. You […]. The post Customer success professionals should focus on net revenue retention (NRR) to prove ROI – Interview with You Mon Tsang of ChurnZero first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Speaker: Aaron Jacob, VP of Accounting Solutions & Reagan Cook, GTM Lead

Are you struggling to navigate the complexities and challenges that come with crypto accounting? 🤔 This new webinar will cover everything businesses need to know to get started with crypto accounting after incorporating crypto into their business models! Industry experts Aaron Jacob and Reagan Cook of TaxBit will thoroughly explore the prevalent operational hurdles encountered by accounting teams when interacting with crypto on the books, and detail how software solutions can effectively

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

When it comes to delivering great customer service, call center agents need some essential soft skills that may not have been listed on their resumés. Unlike the hard skills or technical skills required to operate call center technology, soft skills relate more to an agent’s demeanor during a customer interaction. Though newer agents may not have all the essential soft skills required right away, you can provide training to help them improve and become top-performing call center employees in no

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Elasticsearch is an indispensable part of Intercom. It underpins core Intercom features like Inbox , Inbox Views, API, Articles , the user list, reporting, Resolution Bot , and our internal logging systems. Our Elasticsearch clusters contain more than 350TB of customer data, store more than 300 billion documents, and serve more than 60 thousand requests per second at peak.

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Heart of the Customer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Being a Change Maker requires a different way of thinking, so it’s helpful to have guides to show you the way. In my new book, Do B2B Better, which comes out next month on CX Day, I provide deep dives into numerous real-world customer experience programs and lots of practical tips. But I am particularly […]. The post Do B2B Better Excerpt #1: Roxie Strohmenger appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

A lot of the behavioral sciences can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. In my 20 years as a consultant for Customer Experience, I have been involved in several successful implementations. The Maersk Line project that I worked on with Michél Patterson , a continuous improvement expert in Lean Six Sigma was one of the most, with an improvement

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Speaker: Brad Pinneke, VP of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

In this webinar, Brad Pinneke, Vice President of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, will dive into the 7 must-have criteria for evaluating payments partners, helping you maximize both efficiency and the long-term value of your investment. From assessing technology capabilities to leveraging business development opportunities, this session will give you a clear, actionable strategy to select the right partner for scaling your business.

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